Software Development Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
April 1, 2018
Positive ExperienceGot Offer
Process
I gave my resume to a college career fair. A recruiter contacted me a few weeks later asking me to set up a technical phone screen. The phone screen was 45 minutes long, which included writing code in CoderPad. It focused on basic data structures. Know how to implement different data structures and modify their implementation to suit the needs of the given problem.
I was given an opportunity to come on-site for a breakfast with the recruiting team, followed by three 1-hour, back-to-back interviews, and finally a tour of the Lending Club office. The on-site interviews can be a little challenging, but nothing too hard. The questions are not intended to trick you, but the interviewers are interested in your approach to the solution and want you to work with them. If you think to yourself and code up the solution without uttering a single word, that would earn you negative points! The interviewers were really, really great!
Questions
Common questions you see on CTCI, HackerRank, LeetCode, etc.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the LendingClub Software Development role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
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Pass Rate
LendingClub's interview process for their Software Development roles in San Francisco, California is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
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Candidates reported having very good feelings for LendingClub's Software Development interview process in San Francisco, California.
LendingClub Work Experiences
3.0
Great People. Some great teams left. Little Innovation.
Lead Engineer • Former Employee
February 22, 2021
Pros: I'm rating this from the perspective of an engineer who left LC back in 2020.
Great people, and you'll love everyone. They really are great.
Decent pay, and definitely not top of market but decent for Sr, Lead, Principal, Architect + levels.
Company perks were nice pre covid.
Managers were, and maybe still are, spectacular. I liked almost every engineering manager I've met. They are, and were, really great.
Cons: Unfortunately, most of the talented engineers and leaders have already left the company. Seriously, not exaggerating, my tenure was peppered with monthly goodbyes from great people. Since I started, I counted 73 of my working peers leaving the company. Not because of dire situations but because they could be doing more elsewhere. And that leads me to my next point:
If you join as an engineer, you will most likely join a team with little documentation and with no seniority on the project. Be prepared if you do; you will be managing the plumbing more than writing new features.
Vertically, engineering leadership is now lacking, although there are still great managers. At the C and VP level, engineering leadership in building a great engineering culture does not exist anymore. It is really in maintenance mode since COVID started, and I hope that now as a bank, LC sees the inevitable and either does what other banks do and hires all engineering offshore to do the core lifting, which is super unlikely, or actually innovate.
Innovation at LC was becoming a bank when I was there because honestly, peer-to-peer lending failed. What will the next evolution at LC bring? I think unless leadership is serious about innovation, of which all evidence suggests otherwise, I wouldn't recommend joining the company anytime soon.
1.0
Sadly, the magic is gone.....
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, CA
September 6, 2017
Pros: There are still some really smart people at Lending Club. The CEO is a great guy, and some of the executives are bright, focused, and good in their respective fields. In general, there is collaboration, and people treat each other with respect.
Cons: The energy and excitement of the Renaud era is over. LC plods along and will be profitable as there is such a huge market for the personal loan product. Technical innovation doesn't seem to be what's happening. Most groups are overstaffed—beyond anything I've seen—and the diligent chipping away at the balance sheet goes on and on. It does seem like the execs are waiting for a sale.
4.0
Good company in general
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, CA
March 5, 2022
Pros: Colleagues are very nice.
TC are reasonable.
WLB.
Cons: Stocks:
Snacks are not very good.
- 3.0Great People. Some great teams left. Little Innovation.Lead Engineer • Former EmployeeFebruary 22, 2021Pros: I'm rating this from the perspective of an engineer who left LC back in 2020. Great people, and you'll love everyone. They really are great. Decent pay, and definitely not top of market but decent for Sr, Lead, Principal, Architect + levels. Company perks were nice pre covid. Managers were, and maybe still are, spectacular. I liked almost every engineering manager I've met. They are, and were, really great.Cons: Unfortunately, most of the talented engineers and leaders have already left the company. Seriously, not exaggerating, my tenure was peppered with monthly goodbyes from great people. Since I started, I counted 73 of my working peers leaving the company. Not because of dire situations but because they could be doing more elsewhere. And that leads me to my next point: If you join as an engineer, you will most likely join a team with little documentation and with no seniority on the project. Be prepared if you do; you will be managing the plumbing more than writing new features. Vertically, engineering leadership is now lacking, although there are still great managers. At the C and VP level, engineering leadership in building a great engineering culture does not exist anymore. It is really in maintenance mode since COVID started, and I hope that now as a bank, LC sees the inevitable and either does what other banks do and hires all engineering offshore to do the core lifting, which is super unlikely, or actually innovate. Innovation at LC was becoming a bank when I was there because honestly, peer-to-peer lending failed. What will the next evolution at LC bring? I think unless leadership is serious about innovation, of which all evidence suggests otherwise, I wouldn't recommend joining the company anytime soon.
- 1.0Sadly, the magic is gone.....Software Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, CASeptember 6, 2017Pros: There are still some really smart people at Lending Club. The CEO is a great guy, and some of the executives are bright, focused, and good in their respective fields. In general, there is collaboration, and people treat each other with respect.Cons: The energy and excitement of the Renaud era is over. LC plods along and will be profitable as there is such a huge market for the personal loan product. Technical innovation doesn't seem to be what's happening. Most groups are overstaffed—beyond anything I've seen—and the diligent chipping away at the balance sheet goes on and on. It does seem like the execs are waiting for a sale.
- 4.0Good company in generalSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, CAMarch 5, 2022Pros: Colleagues are very nice. TC are reasonable. WLB.Cons: Stocks: Snacks are not very good.
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